Supershpion near Hitler. Syrkov B.Yu.

Hans-Tilo Schmidt (1888-1943)-a spy known under the code name "asche", or "Source D". From August 1931 to March 1940, he sold to French military intelligence super -secret data on the Enigma encryption machine, which was used by the Armed Forces of Germany. The data received was transferred to Polish mathematicians. The Poles, along with the allies, including France and the UK, were able to read most of the traffic encrypted by Enigma.

But the most important thing, Schmidt informed the French about Hitler's strategic plans, including the rearmament of Germany, joining it by the Rhine region, Austria and Sudet, as well as the division of Czechoslovakia and an attack on Poland, which laid the foundation for the Second World War. The reader is waiting for an exciting narrative about Shmidt’s espionage career and his exposure in 1943.